Winners of the 2009-2010 Neukom Institute CompX Grants Program for Dartmouth faculty, with awards of up to $20,000 for one-year projects, were:
We are developing an integrated suite of general methods combining computation and experiment in order to produce immunotolerant variants of therapeutic proteins, in which immunogenicity is reduced while therapeutic activity is maintained. We will use the information gleaned from experimental studies to refine the computational methods, with an eye towards establishing a broadly applicable approach to designing efficacious and non-immunogenic therapeutic proteins.
GreenLite Dartmouth combines computation, art, engineering, information visualization, sociology, environmental science, systems thinking and behavioral psychology to turn real-time energy use data into a meaningful display that encourages students to change their behavior and conserve resources. We utilize 2D and 3D animations to reflect historical data and predict what current energy use should be for a given day, time or location. Neukom funds were used for student research to develop a content delivery engine that can implement specified decision trees, implementation of a game engine and Facebook application and to conduct a user study.
Can intelligent cars with the ability to autonomously drive, change lanes, and avoid collision with nearby vehicles and pedestrians, one day create safer roads with fewer accidents, traffic, and air pollution? Professor Olfati-Saber and his team are using his Comp X Grant to build a mobile sensing platform and robotic testbed for an in-depth study of Cyber-Physical Networked Systems---a technological counterpart of complex systems such as flocks and swarms in nature with cohesive behaviors.
